It sounds like I'm getting defensive about the movie there, which I'm not, I was just kind of pleasantly surprised. I mean it's a kids movie. I'm not the audience for it by any means. But Till shows more personality here than he does in that MAGUYVER reboot.

Yeah the spending is dumb, which is just indicative of a major problem that Hollywood has anyway. But the idea, for a kids film, is no more or less dumb than 'a rat becomes a Chef' or 'singing competition for animals'.

Ha. It always happens whenever people watch FRIGHT NIGHT I think. To go from FRIGHT NIGHT to PLUMBER'S LIQUID is quite the career change.

According to the latest Wrestling Observer, Taker showing up on Smackdown was supposed to lead to his feud with Cena and into WrestleMania. However it looks like Vince has scrapped that plan and has moved him over to Raw instead and he'll feud with someone there (My bet will be Strowman. Strowman will go over and he…

Well it looks like Taker is now going to feud with someone on RAW for his WM match. According to the latest Wresting Observer, the Cena/Taker match has been taken off the table. I have a sneaking suspicion it'll either be Strowman or Reigns (I actually suspect Strowman).

It's a funny story, but ultimately it means nothing. The kid didn't write it. But it's somehow being mentioned as though a four year old auteur wrote and directed the thing.

Honestly like laugh about the movie all you want, but Till pulls of the feat of having chemistry with an entity that isn't even there. The movie itself is just fine. It's not the disaster people thought it would be by any means. It's clearly something that was made for kids, and I'm not sure what good it is piling on…

I think it's ultimately a very complicated issue that is always, by someone's perspective, going to be unfair. If you take AMERICAN HUSTLE, given her relative screen time Jennifer Lawrence did better than anyone else did. Of everyone it was Amy Adams on that movie who got screwed.

Well I think Portman answered it in part there. She says that his 'quote' was higher than hers. Essentially it's as simple as ok you want him in this movie then you pay this much. What that is based on has no real math behind it, it's just a vague 'lets see what we can get away with' type thing.

I'm not American, so I will defer to your argument on gun violence in part because I don't know enough about it (I wasn't cherry picking data, just picking the most recent years).

It might be down since the 90s, but you can make the argument that contextually the US is in a much different place than it was then. Mass shootings for example are higher in the last few years than they were for most of the 2000's.

I don't know. I kind of don't think you need that. It's like saying that you need to know why society has fallen the way it has in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK or something. It's enough to know that our basest instincts have been catered to and embraced.

I feel a straight approach would do a real disservice to it. I think it needs to retain one foot in that pulpy material to work. It reminds me of what Larry Cohen was turning out in the 70s/80s/. The social aspects for me work as well as they do because they're mired in this kind of ridiculous premise.

Sometimes that blunt approach can be laughable. But sometimes it's what is needed. I like the pulply-cum-lofty ambitions of the PURGE series, certainly a lot more than I would like a 'real' take on the same material.

Yeah. Alan Sepinwall tweeted about it. Its closed-ended, so 18 hours is all you're getting.

STARSHIP TROOPERS is so great. Also, watching it again you can tell which actors get it and which ones don't. Clancy Brown and Ironside do. And of the younger cast only NPH does. Who knows with Jake Busey.

I don't know. It isn't all that uncommon and really, isn't the most obvious answer just to say yeah it didn't fit so we cut it? I mean, why go through the trouble of explaining it when you have your perfect excuse right there. There's no covering necessary.

I'm surprised to see so many latch on to that, not from here but elsewhere. It's actually not that uncommon. It's like using a temp track for your score.

The thing is I like that though. And I like the final moment of Cassian and Jyn. I think when the movie continues after that it really suffers. The Vader scene and particularly that fucking horrible CG Leia did nothing for me.

Overall I don't think the original one was that different. I think it's pretty clear from the editor interviews that they didn't really know what they were making until they were shooting.